Using LinkedIn To Hire & Network…
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Honestly, I have stayed away from “social networks” except for “Facebook.com” which I use just for my college friends. As far as “business” goes, I always thought that these social networks were complete B.S.
However, recently we had a few positions we needed to fill and someone new on our management team asked me to PDF and send the job description to her, so I did. Little did I know, she blasted out the offer to her LinkedIn network and we filled one of the key positions in less than 1 day! Not just “filled it” - we filled with a GREAT fit for the job.
Linkedin.com has now become the absolute first place we go with a new job opening. The great thing about it is that you can blast out to your entire contact network with the click of a button and your network starts to SPREAD the offer around to others (so your job offer actually becomes viral). By the way, all of this is FREE to do, we’ve been cheap.
But if we actually PAY linkedin, we can even access thousands more that would fit the job but may not be in our personal network.
My tip for the day is to definitely start a profile on LinkedIn, and try to get your job network as big as godly possible - it’ll be a heaven for hiring!
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